Robert Kelly put that toot toot, beep beep right back into 2013.
The year was 2013. R. Kelly, the man deemed the most successful R&B artist of past 25 years — Mr. Bump N' Grind himself — resurged onto the pop circuit. No, he was not itching for a comeback. Robert Sylvester Kelly was just getting started.
When a petition called for President Obama to legally change the national anthem to "Ignition (Remix)."
"...America has changed since Francis Scott Key penned our current anthem in 1814. Since then, we have realized that after the show, it’s the afterparty, and that after the party, it’s the hotel lobby, and—perhaps most importantly—that ‘round about four, you’ve got to clear the lobby, at which point it’s strongly recommended that you take it to the room and freak somebody.”
When his back-to-basics hit "My Story" shot straight to #1 on Billboard's R&B list.
And he repped his Chicago roots hard.
When Kellz and Gaga teamed up to give us "Do What U Want," the body-rolling anthem of the year.
